THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY of MUSIC, VIDEO and HOME ENTERTAINMENT Rnovember 4, 2000
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$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) 1 I I 1111 II InI I II 111nIII 1111 II I I II I II 1 11n,11 #BXNCCVR 3-D=GIT 908 #90807GEE374EM002# BLBD 758 A06 B0086 001 033002 2 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE # A LONG BEACH CA 90807 -3402 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT rNOVEMBER 4, 2000 www.americanradiohistory.com After 140 sold out concerts in 65 cities you can now take him home 1LJE t /err VHS and DVD u n ,1 WI .\ I ,irJlnc. Nmrn r h)I, m.d. n.J l. n1,.11n www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com M //I .: ro - rte www.americanradiohistory.com w V) w z THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT NOVEMBER 4, 2000 Electronica's few Breakouts Digital Downloads: Will Enough Consumers Care? Prove The Exception So Far five Majors Struggle With Models To `Monetize' Web Music fatbny Slim Bridges The Gap Art Not Always Accessible BY MARILYN A. GILLEN Warner Music Group- marking the be identified. NEW YORK- There's a dark joke long- anticipated arrival of all five "But while we were running, the BY LARRY FLICK BY CHRIS MORRIS currently making its way through majors in the U.S. commercial online landscape was changing all around Norman Cook recently learned LOS ANGELES -In 1997, as alter- music's new -media trenches in the music market, albeit with a still rel- us- Napster was only the final firsthand how Jim Morrison disciples native rock hit a sales trough, elec- form of a question posed by one atively small slate of initial offerings. straw, but you also have the devel- feel about their object of worship tronic music was the genre on every- weary industry colleague to anoth- The largely unspoken question opment of wireless and broadband being further immortal one's lips. With the U.K. er: How does it feel to have run a now is, In what direction will the and lockers and [similar new ser- ized on a club track. group the Prodigy three -year marathon -and just vices]," he continues. "And so now Cook, better known awarded a reported mul- reached the starting line? NEWS ANALYSIS that we've got where we were going, these days as Astral timillion-dollar American The marathon was the major it's not at all clear to many of us, I werks electronica wunder- contract and poised for labels' digital -download ramp -up, next 26 miles take the industry? think, that this is where we want to kind Fatboy Slim, looped success with the break- and the new starting line in the race "We [as an industry] had this be or should be." the late Doors front man through single "Fire - to "monetize" the Web comes wonderful moment of clarity a few In other words, are we at the end chanting several lines of starter," some in the Wednesday (1), with the rollout of years ago -downloads are the an- of the beginning of a thriving paid poetry from the classic industry predicted that 100 digital albums and singles from swer! -and we all rushed ahead digital -download market or the recording "American FATBO Y SLIM the to make that beginning of the end for a model Prayer" onto his own new ambient/ electronic sound work," says an that some critics say has proved dance composition, "Sunset (Bird Of would be the next executive at one itself flawed even before implemen- Prey)." It seemed like an innocent big thing. `SRV' Pays Trìbute To Y aughan of the major tation? And if it is the latter, what enough idea to Cook -until he did a (Continued on labels now online will come next? (Continued on page 75) pogo 76) Hits, Rarities Pack Epic/Legacy CCD Set who asks not to (Continued on page 78) BY JIM BESSMAN and additional text by former Will The Industry Be Left NEW YORK -The enduring Texas governor Ann Richards, Work-For-Hire Issue Arises legacy of the late Stevie Ray The Austin Chronicle's Mar- Vaughan will be celebrated on garet Moser, Guitar World's With only 1 Record Club? Nov. 21 with Epic /Legacy's re- Alan Paul, and former CBS In UMG /MP3.com Case lease of "SRV," a four -disc Records Southwest regional VP BY ED CHRISTMAN boxed set contain- Jack Chase. Some BY BILL HOLLAND NEW YORK -If the negotiations by Sony Music Enter- ing three audio 30 fellow musi- WASHINGTON, D.C. -Lawyers for Universal Music tainment and the Warner Music Group to sell Columbia CDs and a DVD cians offer trib- Group (UMG) have asked the judge in the trial of its House to BMG Entertainment are successful (Bill - featuring Vaugh- ute quotes, in- copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3.com to boardBulletin, Oct. 24), it would leave the industry an and his band cluding Jeff Beck, rule that the sound recordings involved in the lawsuit with one record club, BMG Music Service. Double Trouble's David Bowie, are works made for hire . previously un Eric Clapton, However, according to William aired and unis- Mick Jagger, Patry, the lawyer presenting MP3. sued six -song tap- Bonnie Raitt, and corn's oral argument against such a SMG ing in 1989 for Joey Ramone. ruling at the hearing Thursday (2), "Austin City Lim- The audio ma- such a decision would extend be- D I R E C T its." terial encompass- yond the recordings involved in the Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, it looks like The CD con- VAUG HAN es Vaughan's awsuit. the latter company is succumbing to industry pressure tents total 54 tracks, 29 of entire recording career, begin- "It would apply across the board," says Patry, "be- to back away from its controversial OnePriceCDs club, which are live, with 36 previ- ning in 1977 with his appear- cause there's no factual difference between those and a new online club that makes the entire 12,000 -title BMG ously unreleased. An extensive- ance on Paul Ray & the Cobras' any other recordings." Music Service catalog available for $9.99 a title, includ- ly annotated 72 -page booklet "Thunderbird" and ending with Artists' groups and some observers on Capitol Hill ing shipping. has a discography, a chronology, (Continued on page 77) see the motion as an attempt by UMG, following the (Continued on page 75) (Continued on page 83) Atlantic Records wishes you a very Merry Christmas. I N THE NEWS MTV2 Triples Its Reach er Stories Joy: A Holiday Collection Christmas Stays The Same A Christmas Album A Charlie Brown Christmas Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire With New Cable Deals Featunng The Broadway Gospel Chou See Page 10 And no unhappy returns. ADVERTISEMENT www.americanradiohistory.com VER The new album featuring the single Holler, produced by Rodney Jerkins for Darkchild Entertainment Inc. Enhanced CD featuring the videos Holler and Let Love Lead The Way. In stores November 7. www.spicegirlsforever.com www.virginrecords.com 4)2000 Virgin Records Ltd- %''' www.americanradiohistory.com Ryan Adams' Healing 'Heartbreaker' BiIIbord with a broken heart and a braced artistic If we're not afraid to submit to their dark power, the best olina two years later Editor in Chief: TIMOTHY WHITE of New York," Adams reflects. "My EDITORIAL sad songs can make us stronger. About eight weeks ago will. "I had had enough Managing Editor: DON JEFFREY Whiskeytown singer /songwriter Ryan Adams quietly released lease was running out, I had a relationship on the rocks, I was Deputy Editor: Iry Lichtman - Executive Editor -New Media: Marilyn A. Gillen "Heartbreaker" (Bloodshot Records), his first solo album. Feel- having some record company problems, I'd taken some seri- Director of Special Issues: Gene Sculatti; Dalet Brady, Associate Director; Katy Kroll, Assistant Editor; Marin Jorgensen, Special Issues Coordinator ing so bad has seldom sounded so laceratingly good, and just to ous blows that year, and I just needed to escape. I was afraid, Bureau Chiefs: Leila Cobo (Caribbean and Latin America), Bill Holland (Washington), Melinda Newman (LA.), Phyllis Stark (Nashville) make sure you don't miss anything on the finest musical mem- but I knew if I gave into any of that fear I would just crumble Art Director: Jeff Nisbet; Assistant: Raymond Carlson who Adams on a proba- Copy Chief: Bruce Janicke oir of 2000, it's better to listen to it in the dark. into pieces." A new manager accepted Copy Editors: Andrew Boorstyn, Marlaina Gray, Carl Rosen lost or tional basis ( "He wanted to see if I was gonna fall apart ") sug- Senior Editor: Ed Christman, Retail (N.Y.) "Sometimes when you get that lonely or that that Senior Writers: Chris Morris (L.A.), Chuck Taylor (N.Y.) sad," says Adams of the project, "you really operate out of the gested he move to Nashville to save money and expand his Talent Editor: Larry Flick (N.Y.) R &B Music: Gail Mitchell, Editor (L.A.) worst of your fears and the highest of your hopes at the same musical/social circle. Country/Christian Music: Deborah Evans Price (Nashville) Dance Music: Michael Paoletta, Editor (N.Y.) time. I think that spiritually you owe it to yourself when you The outcome is "Heartbreaker," an intuitive document des- Pro Audio/Technology: Christopher Walsh, Editor (N.Y.) Digital Entertainment: Eileen Fitzpatrick, Editor (L.A.) have intense feelings to respect those feelings and go, `OK, this tined to be a prized, restorative possession for anyone fortu- Radio: Frank Saxe, Editor (N.Y.) to it. The record's 14 songs are so nat- Heatseekers Features/Music Video: Carla Hay, Editor (N.Y.) is as much of the gift of being here as a walk through the park.' nate enough encounter Financial Reporter: Brian Garrity (N.Y.) to be a bad thing.